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...pince-nezed, gouty Offenbach was not satisfied with being the most popular light-weight composer in the world. All his life he nursed an ambition to write a serious opera. He fulfilled his ambition just before he died, in the fantastic, melodious Tales of Hoffmann. Today Composer Offenbach's operettas are mostly forgotten. But Tales of Hoffmann still holds the boards in most opera houses, and the famous Barcarolle from its third act is still played by restaurant & café orchestras all over the world...
Forecaster Dirac won a Nobel Prize in 1933. Positrons have now been produced at the rate of 30,000 per second by gamma rays, and the Curie-Joliots of Paris observed them shooting out of light-weight elements in their first experiments with artificial radioactivity. It has even been suggested, despite their brief lives in the laboratory, that positrons may be a component of the primary cosmic rays...
...almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant must stoop over to give treatments and this often develops backaches. To avoid backaches and skin troubles, smart hydrotherapists wear cotton athletic suits inside light-weight waterproof waders which cover them from soles to armpits...
Millikan's Photons. It seemed natural to Dr. Millikan that the cosmic rays were light rays or photons of enormously high frequency and short wave length. He concluded that they were the by-products of atom-building in interstellar space; that when light-weight atoms suddenly combined to form heavier ones, a slight excess of matter-like bricklayer's mortar scraped from the wall-was turned into high-frequency light according to the Einstein equation. To him this was a peculiarly satisfying interpretation as it bespoke "the Creator still...
...attempt to revive the light-weight sport is being made by a group of un- degraduates who have secured official sanction from William J. Bingham '16, head of the H.A.A. The services of Robert M. Bilder 2L, quarter back at Williams in 1932, have been obtained as coach...